Isle of Wight

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-090

Description: Drawings prepared by Philip Phillips for publication, from originals by Gideon Mantell. They show landscapes that are rich sources for fossils and other geological information Inscriptions: Signed: P Phillips Quantity: 8 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink and wash drawings, heightened with white, size varies within 180 x 101 mm

Date: 1840 - 1845

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :Drawings used as basis for illustrations in `Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire..' by G A Mantell; London, H G Bohn, 1847. ca 1845.

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-090-003

Description: Tall chalk cliffs, south England, possibly the Isle of Wight Original for illustration in `Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire' by G A Mantell (London, Bohn, ca 1845). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash 79 x 119 mm Provenance: Mantell collection

Date: [Circa 1850s-1900s?]

From: Parker, Robert, 1847-1937 :Cachemaille albums. Scenic views of India, England, New Zealand and Europe

By: Frith, Francis, 1822-1898

Reference: PA1-f-016

Description: Scenic views of various countries, including India, England, France, Belgium, Switzerland and New Zealand. The New Zealand images are chiefly in the Christchurch region. Many of the English and European images were photographed by English photographer Francis Frith as part of Frith's Series. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album, black cover embossed with gold initials "R.P.", 32 x 38 cm

Date: 1844

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :[Geological and zoological illustrations]. 1824-1851

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-210-q-060

Description: Drawing of a turtle shell Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Chitone antigua (written in pencil) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 265 x 320 mm (irregular)

Date: 1845 - 1850

By: Barry, Frederick, active 1820-1862; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-131-006

Description: English landscape, Isle of Wight. Looking along a coastline towards white chalk cliffs, with cows in the foreground. A house below a road in the right foreground, another visible in the distance to the left Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in brown brushpoint; bottom right, signature Fredk Barry Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey card, 158 x 351 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1865 - 1885

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-346-1-036

Description: A road or stream through a wood, looking underneath a rustic latticed archway to fields and houses in the distance. The view presumably evokes a line of Tennyson's poetry or is the setting for a poem Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: Between 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0270

Description: His Majesty's yacht `Britannia' racing at Cowes (Isle of Wight), published by Beken & Son Cowes. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 88 x 135 mm

Date: 1840 - 1845

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852 :Drawings used as basis for illustrations in `Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire..' by G A Mantell; London, H G Bohn, 1847. ca 1845.

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-090-001

Description: Looking along a beach line on the Isle of Wight with hills and rocky outcrops to the left. Two small groups standing in the foreground, two yachts at sea to the right, buildings in the distance. Original for illustration in `Geological excursions round the Isle of Wight and along the adjacent coast of Dorsetshire' by G A Mantell (London, Bohn, ca 1845) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - G A Mantell, June 1844; also title in the hand of Gideon Mantell, and lower right, on image, P. Phillips. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash 79 x 119 mm Provenance: Mantell collection

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Country of the iguanodon. Ca 1830 to ca 1850.

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-330-f-069

Description: Drawing of vertebrae and bones in situ Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour pencil and ink 312 x 472 mm

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Country of the iguanodon. Ca 1830 to ca 1850.

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-330-f-045-2

Description: Fossil vertebrae and other bones in situ. In lower lefthand side there are rough drawings of several bones. Relationship complexity - See also E-330-f-069 for watercolour original and source of title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink 445 x 285 mm

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Country of the iguanodon. Ca 1830 to ca 1850.

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852

Reference: E-330-F-053-1

Description: Drawing of three vertebrae Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 241 x 292 mm

Date: 1999

From: Clarke, Angela, fl 2002 : Family tree and related papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7359-2

Description: The volume is described as an evocative view in words and pictures Quantity: 1 folder(s) (one volume).

Date: 1852

From: Rees, William Gilbert, 1827-1898 : Papers

Reference: E-199-q-003

Description: St Catherines lighthouse by the shore on the Isle of Wight Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white 138 x 230 mm

Date: 1850-1851

From: Pheney family: Shipboard diaries and portraits

By: Pheney, Richard, 1803-1881

Reference: MS-Papers-12139-1

Description: Loose leaf shipboard diary by Richard Pheney written during a voyage from Gravesend to New Plymouth on the 'Eden' in 1850, and subsequent voyages between New Zealand settlements. The diary is written in letter form, addressed to "Richard", with the first entry dated "Bay of Biscay, 20th June 1850". Some of the stations along the journey described include arrival at Isle of Wright on 11 June 1850, and off Madeira on 28 June 1850. The voyage ends at New Plymouth on 28 October 1850 - 140 days after departure from Gravesend. The diary then describes New Plymouth and another voyage from there to Nelson departing on 6 November 1850, and a voyage from Nelson to Port Nicholson departing on 25 November 1850 and arriving on 30 November 1850. The final sections of the diary describe Wellington, New Plymouth, and suggested articles for import and resale, and are dated "Wellington Decb. 3rd, 1850", "Wellington Dec. 6, 1850", with the latter addressed as "My dear Richard & Frank", and "New Plymouth 6 January 1851". Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph, loose leaf manuscript, 32 pages (one blank), ink on laid paper watermarked "Fellows 1819" with seated Britannia emblem, 32.5 x 20.3 cm.

Date: 1914-1915

From: Stout family: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1988

Description: Photograph album of Pearce family overseas holiday, Heretaunga buildings, and soldiers at Trentham Racecourse, 1913-1915. Captions identify some people and places though people are often identified by initials. Holiday locations visited are England, Scotland, Isle of Wight, Alberquerque, Papeete, Tahiti, and Rarotonga. Photographs show buildings, people, events, and activities. Included in England photographs are military recruitment tents [London?] and Hyde Park Gate with spotlight mounted on it in 1914. Heretaunga photographs show Golf House, eeling hole, and Pearce family house and garden. Donor's note that accompanied album read: "A Pearce album" Quantity: 1 album(s) containing 96 b&w prints. Physical Description: Dark brown card photograph album, 22 x 17.2 cm

Date: [ca 1840s-1853]

From: Marsack, Croft Augustus, 1824-1892: Memoirs and sketchbooks

Reference: MSX-9651

Description: The first volume in a series of four volumes and index. Comprises chapters I to XIV. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound volume.

Date: 1860-1865

From: Marsack, Croft Augustus, 1824-1892: Memoirs and sketchbooks

By: Marsack, Croft Augustus, 1824-1892

Reference: E-973-2

Description: The second extant volume in a series of sketchbooks by Croft Augustus Marsack. Comprises table of contents followed by pencil and watercolour sketches numbered 77 to 112, dated 1860 to 1865. The "Index to the sketches" lists the titles as follows: - No. 77 Sonning church. - No. 78 Quehen hill and woods as viewed from the Herquelingues. - No. 79 Entrance to the harbour of St Valery-en-Caux. - No. 80 The Château de M de Breante, near Torcy. - No. 81 Obelisk erected to commemorate the battle of Arques, near Martin Eglise. - No. 82 Mr Seguin's house at Daunes. - No. 83 The Château d'Hardelot as viewed from the Ruisseau d'Elbecq. - No. 84 Caversham church and Rectory house from the Thames. - No. 85 The Queen's road Reading, shewing Rose Cottage. - No. 86 Ningwood, the residence of the Rev[ere]nd J Cottle, Shalfleet, Isle of Wight. - No. 87 The Needles, Isle of Wight, as seen from the Hampshire coast. - No. 88 Mr William Dodd's residence at Hailey near Wallingford. - No. 89 Church and village of Daunes. - No. 90 The 'Roebuck', on the Thames near Reading. - No. 91 Railway bridge over the Lodden, between Reading and Wokingham. - No. 92 The Place at Outreau, shewing our residence there. - No. 93 Eastern entrance to the Condette warren. - No. 94 Outreau, from the Equihen road. - No. 95 Henin's farm, between Wimille and Wimereux. - No. 96 Le Portel, from the Equihen road. - No. 97 Equihen church. - No. 98 The beach at Naingles, with Alpreck lighthouse in the distance. - No. 99 Caversham Park House from the neighbourhood of Emmer Green. - No. 100 Entrance to the Reading Cemetery. - No. 101 The Upper Town Boulogne, as viewed from near the Column. - No. 102 Convent of the Visitation taken from the ramparts. - No. 103 The Porte Gayolle. - No. 104 M Joan's watermill at Wimille. - No. 105 Group of houses on the old road to Outreau. - No. 106 Entrance to the Château de Quehen. - No. 107 The American's house, on the summit of Mont Herquelingues. - No. 108 The beach at Wimereux, Pointe aus Oies, and Cape Grisnez. - No. 109 Mr Blount's house at Maple Durham. - No. 110 Purley House, seat of Major Storer, on the Thames near the Roebuck. - No. 111 Watermill at Maple Durham. - No. 112 The Clappers fall and bridge, on the Thames near Caversham. The captions from the preliminary index pages are not repeated on the sketches, which have the number inscribed in the top right and the year in the top left corner. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, and watercolour, in bound sketchbook, 38 leaves of watermarked paper, half-bound in leather with cloth boards, gold tooling, printed endpapers, stationer's mark blind-stamped "Reading Bookseller & Publisher" on endpaper, 143 x 230 mm.

Date: 1853-1867

From: Marsack, Croft Augustus, 1824-1892: Memoirs and sketchbooks

Reference: MSX-9652

Description: The second volume in a series of four volumes and index. Comprises chapters I to XVIII. Title transcribed from item. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Bound volume.

Date: ca 1900

By: Underwood & Underwood (Firm)

Reference: PA4-1416

Description: Stereoscopic photograph of a scene in the village of Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England, showing thatched dwellings. Photograph taken by a staff photographer of Underwood and Underwood. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - left of image - Underwood & Underwood Publishers.....; Backing board recto - right of image - Works and Studios, Arlington NJ, Littleton N.H. Washington, DC; Backing board recto - beneath image - The quaint homes in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1853, 1858

By: Hadfield, Catherine, 1831-1902

Reference: qMS-0894

Description: Comprises Mrs Hadfield's diary of a journey from Auckland to Wanganui and Otaki in 1853 and letters written during a voyage to England in 1858 in the `Southern Cross'. Hadfield writes in a lively informative style detailing the act of travel, the daily routines, the people she meets or who worked for the party. Included in the overland journey section is a letter written from Wanganui to her parents (1854), and notes provided by the transcriber on the persons she met. Copied from original by J W Marshall Quantity: 1 volume(s) (31 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (¼ blue morocco, blue linen)